Dangerous Liquid

Last Friday Thursday night's gullywasher rainstorm predictably slowed or paralyzed several New York subway lines and stations; among others, the 125th Street station on the green line was blacked out from a lightning strike, and water flooded several tunnels and platforms. Gothamist brings us this fine commemoration of what it's like to stand next to a veritable torrent of crapwater, filtered through several rarefying layers of Penn Station infrastructure.

Fwd: rain tonight in Penn Sta... 8:15ish.. [Flickr via Boing Boing]

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Who knew that you could go straight from D.C.'s downtrodden, crime-ridden Ward 8 to Harlem in Manhattan via that pesky Green Line? Won't the Second Avenue subway link up with that Yellow Line that goes down Broadway?